Pure Holiday Foolishness: Bird Related Music

24122008

Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man

A couple of years back my brother, who is a big music nerd, was trying to come up with music mix CD’s that reflected the recipients interests. So his girlfriends father (who loves jogging) got a CD stuffed with such classics as Bryan Adams ‘Run to You’ and Springsteen’s – Born to Run’ – clever eh!

I was thinking about that again the other day and wondered whether I could come up with a ‘twitching’ mix CD that I might listen to in the car on my way to look for a Varied Thrush or some such. Well I was surprised how many good records (at least in my opinion) I could come up with that either had bird names in the track title or the band name.

Thanks to some help from the folks at Birdforum and the skillz of Eric ‘the frog’ Kupper I think I have built a decent little collection of tunes. I can’t say they are all my favorite records (apart from Gil, The Decemberists and the perfect Eels track) but I could at least tap my toes to most of them – and no godawful ‘Hotel California’ required thank goodness!

5 responses

Luke – the music is great…you’ve got to love the Trashmen. I used to jokingly sing this song to my kids but never really knew where I’d heard it or who it was.

28122008

underclearskies(16:36:14) :

Chrissy – Where’s the bird name in the title? If it was Cowbird Junkies that would be a good one! and dare I say a better band name 😉 Cheers for a fun day Friday – full report on the blog this evening!

Wendy – Glad you liked the music. I only really know the Trashmen song from the movie Full Metal Jacket (which doesn’t have quite the same fun imagery that you have attached to the song) – a great record though.